Orchard Detention Basin Flood Control Act

Orchard Detention Basin Flood Control Act - Provides for the release of approximately 65 acres of land known as the Orchard Detention Basin in the Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area, Clark County, Nevada, from wilderness designation. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to grant the County a right-of-way for the construction and maintenance of the Orchard Detention Basin Project on that land.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5155 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5155

 To provide for the release of certain land from the Sunrise Mountain 
 Instant Study Area in the State of Nevada and to grant a right-of-way 
  across the released land for the construction and maintenance of a 
                         flood control project.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2006

 Mr. Porter (for himself, Mr. Gibbons, and Ms. Berkley) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the release of certain land from the Sunrise Mountain 
 Instant Study Area in the State of Nevada and to grant a right-of-way 
  across the released land for the construction and maintenance of a 
                         flood control project.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Orchard Detention Basin Flood 
Control Act''.

SEC. 2. RELEASE OF CERTAIN LAND IN THE SUNRISE MOUNTAIN INSTANT STUDY 
              AREA.

    (a) Finding.--Congress finds that the land described in subsection 
(c) has been adequately studied for wilderness designation under 
section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1782).
    (b) Release.--The land described in subsection (c)--
            (1) is no longer subject to section 603(c) of the Federal 
        Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1782(c)); and
            (2) shall be managed in accordance with--
                    (A) land management plans adopted under section 202 
                of that Act (43 U.S.C. 1712); and
                    (B) cooperative conservation agreements in 
                existence on the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (c) Description of Land.--The land referred to in subsections (a) 
and (b) is the approximately 65 acres of land in the Sunrise Mountain 
Instant Study Area of Clark County, Nevada, that is--
            (1) known as the ``Orchard Detention Basin''; and
            (2) designated for release on the map titled ``Orchard 
        Detention Basin'' and dated March 18, 2005.
    (d) Right-of-Way.--The Secretary of the Interior shall grant to 
Clark County, Nevada, a right-of-way to the land described in 
subsection (c) for the construction and maintenance of the Orchard 
Detention Basin Project on the land.
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